Journal article
Emotion recognition of faces and emoji in individuals with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury
Brain injury, Vol.37(7), pp.596-610
06/07/2023
DOI: 10.1080/02699052.2023.2181401
PMCID: PMC10175112
PMID: 36847497
Abstract
BackgroundFacial emotion recognition deficits are common after moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and linked to poor social outcomes. We examine whether emotion recognition deficits extend to facial expressions depicted by emoji.MethodsFifty-one individuals with moderate-severe TBI (25 female) and fifty-one neurotypical peers (26 female) viewed photos of human faces and emoji. Participants selected the best-fitting label from a set of basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, sadness, neutral, surprise, happy) or social emotions (embarrassed, remorseful, anxious, neutral, flirting, confident, proud).ResultsWe analyzed the likelihood of correctly labeling an emotion by group (neurotypical, TBI), stimulus condition (basic faces, basic emoji, social emoji), sex (female, male), and their interactions. Participants with TBI did not significantly differ from neurotypical peers in overall emotion labeling accuracy. Both groups had poorer labeling accuracy for emoji compared to faces. Participants with TBI (but not neurotypical peers) had poorer accuracy for labeling social emotions depicted by emoji compared to basic emotions depicted by emoji. There were no effects of participant sex.DiscussionBecause emotion representation is more ambiguous in emoji than human faces, studying emoji use and perception in TBI is an important consideration for understanding functional communication and social participation after brain injury.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Emotion recognition of faces and emoji in individuals with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury
- Creators
- Sharice Clough - Vanderbilt University Medical CenterEmily Morrow - Vanderbilt University Medical CenterBilge Mutlu - University of Wisconsin–MadisonLyn Turkstra - McMaster UniversityMelissa C. C. Duff - Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Brain injury, Vol.37(7), pp.596-610
- DOI
- 10.1080/02699052.2023.2181401
- PMID
- 36847497
- PMCID
- PMC10175112
- NLM abbreviation
- Brain Inj
- ISSN
- 0269-9052
- eISSN
- 1362-301X
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 15
- Grant note
- R01HD071089 / Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) R01 NIH HD071089 / National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/07/2023
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9985113183502771
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